This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on this topic, the implications are less clear: Writing is…

It's astounding how bad the web is without an ad blocker

This tax on using the web, which funds most of it, pays most of the highest paid programmers ($750k/yr+), etc., doesn't impact programmers, who almost all use ad blockers

The whole situation reminds…

Ok, short thread about why this could be an ecological and cultural disaster. I'm on the beach, so this might be a bit slow..

Thoughts and more by Tom Lingham

AMD’s "together we advance_PCs”l ivestream presentation just wrapped up moments ago, where AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su set the stage for the release of the next generation of AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs. Building off of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 announcement back at Computex 2022…

In this post I am going to go a bit deeper to show how all the concepts from the previous posts come together. I’ll show what happens when a coroutine reaches a suspend-point by walking through the lowering of a coroutine into equivalent non-coroutine, imperative…

Arm NEON is different from x86 SSE in many ways. In this blog, Google's engineer Danila Kutenin shows how to translate popular x86 vector bitmask optimizations to Arm while retaining high performance, resulting in significant improvements across various major…

I finally was able to try it. And I can assure you it’s impossible to create professional and useful images from a text denoscription.

Commonplace Newsletter #89

This guide explains how to use our WireGuard servers that run entirely from RAM. The following WireGuard servers have no disks in use, and are booted with our own STBoot bootloader.

It can be challenging, but the rewards are enormous, and you don’t have to be rich to be an ocean voyager. By Sally Howard

If you thought cookie pop-ups were an annoying nuisance, just wait until you have to scan your face for some third party to “verify your age” after California’s new design code be…

Opinion - NZ's first climate adaptation plan provides a robust foundation for urgent nation-wide action and there are five key areas that need sharper focus Bruce Glavovic writes.

The Peter Principle states "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence". The mind behind the Peter Principle, Dr Laurence J Peter explains some of the observations that informed his theory, and has some advice for those of you…

A python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing. - brendanartley/Regressio

As we've been building Mach engine, we've been using a neat little pattern in Zig that enables writing flag sets more nicely in Zig than in other languages. Here's a brief explainer.